HCL Connections Ideas Portal

Welcome to the HCL Connections Product Ideas Lab! The place where you can submit product ideas and enhancement request. We encourage you to participate by voting on, commenting on, and creating new ideas. All new ideas will be evaluated by the HCL Product Management & Engineering teams, and the next steps will be communicated. While not all submitted ideas will be executed upon, community feedback will play a key role in influencing which ideas are and when they will be implemented.

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    Allow "Track Changes" also for Powerpoint files

    IBM Docs should provide track mode for people working together on powerpoint files, so that you can see what contents were changed. Currently its not possible for Powerpoint files.
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Enhance Bookmarking Tool Related Community - Add option for bidirectional entry when craeting a related community entry

    There is a great Bookmarking Tool in Connections to post the current into several other communities as "related communities".Unfortunately the tool only allows to make this one way current community to multiple others. Please add the option that t...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Add breadcrumb when opening a file in a library (ccm) via a link

    when i walk down the folder path in a library, there is a breadcrumb showing me where the file is located > ccmbc1.jpg. When i go to the file via a link then the breadrumb is missing >ccmbc2
    over 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 No Plans to Implement

    Provide overview of files being followed

    As long as downloaded files are being followed by default, which you might like/want or not, my notification overview is floaded with updates to files that I don't care about. Of course i can go to the file and unfollow, but wouldn't it be far mor...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 2 Under Consideration

    Show TODO for Everyone also in your Notes Calendar through the Connections plugin

    When i create a TODO in Connections for my team ( Community ) and create a link inside my Calendar, this TODO is not visible for anyone. Only when i assign people to a todo, it will popup in the Calendar in Notes. Please allow Notes to add the T...
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 No Plans to Implement

    Maintenance Kudos Boards notification in one place in Connections

    Now a user has the option to manage email and browser notifications in Connections. For Kudos Boards however is a separated admin console where one can enable or disable email notifications. Make notifications more efficient and possible on one ce...
    over 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 No Plans to Implement

    Hope to add "Allow editors of the folder to edit this file" in creating or editing document

    When user upload new document in a shared folder, there is check box "Allow editors of the folder to edit this file", the default value is allowing editing document. When user did uncheck this check box uploading document, any other guy in the sha...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Community search has issues with hyphens and project numbers

    Having a community called "P-01234 - MyProject-Name" it's not possible to search for naming segments containing hyphens. The following terms doesn't give any result: P-01234 01234 MyProject-Name In this example, it only works by searching for "M...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Error message shown every few minutes in IBM Connections-Desktop-Plug-ins for Windows

    In remote sites (e.g. VPN) we have this issue: We were able to configure the plug-in and it works fine, but every few minutes a popup is shown with the error "IBM Connections Server for lappnet sync is currently unavailable". - The notification ...
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Folder and file sharing authorization

    To be more organized, it will better that, for example, we can share a parent folder with all users and every subfolder with only one group. So users can see and access the parent folder but they can not access all subfolder.
    about 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review
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